Madden NFL 12 Videos - Virtual Playbook Gameplay and Presentation

[roadman]

Quote: Originally Posted by guaps

I do believe Madden will eventually become a good game, but not because of Cam Weber's (EA's new GM) resume, but his attitude towards delivering fantastic core gameplay. That being said, Madden still looks like a very flawed game in my opinion and judging from the gameplay videos released to far, I've seen very little to get me excited about this years edition.

His attitude towards delivering fantastic core gameplay is part of the resume for me.

Honestly, for me, it's a an increase from 11 and that might warrant a purchase on this end.(not talking about the physics and locomotion because it's not a finished product, yet)

Still, at the end of the day, I feel there are more positives than negatives with 12 over 11 at this time.

[PRAY IV M3RCY]

Is it just me r does it feel like we should have already had this stuff by now..I know its been said before but no competition sucks. But oh well as long as Madden chooses to be the Only NFL game available they deserve all the criticism About the gameplay they don't get right and the game modes they put off for years.

[shyvoodoo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Legend Killer

Both videos looked awsome. I love the tackling and it looked good. I'm also loving the presentation camera angles aswell. It looks so real and all. But one thing that concerns me about the gameplay in video number 2. Is when Vick snaps the ball. The Giants DE are going to far out to the sides then coming back in and going after the QB. Why are the DE going out that far just to get to the QB. It seemed that both DEs was doing the same angles to get to the QB. Plus the DEs was not using no sort of swim move to try and free themselves from the tackles. Why didn't one of the DEs try going to the inside of the tackle with a swim move. Both DEs was mirror imaging each other when going out to the outside of the tackles to get to the QB. To me that is a concern there. I hope they have more animations then that for the DEs.

Dude, that was just one play... one play. Maybe the defensive play called was for them to go high.. RELAX, wait for more footage. People are over analyzing every little thing they see in these videos.. CALM DOWN, wait for actual gameplay footage (meaning look at more than ONE play) and then make your assessments....

ben
voodoo

[shyvoodoo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Michael_Young_EA

We are listening. We had a bug that caused the numbers in game to be a different scale in game then in our art tool (Shipped in Madden 11). Over the past two weeks our team art lead has been addressing all the number scale issues. Plus these videos were finished a couple weeks ago.

Don't get me wrong, I know guys on here are seeing things like "suction" and "warping" still. but they are working on it still. It's great we have the community we have that loves our football as much as we do and we want the game we see every sunday, but a lot of guys are giving up on the game after seeing a couple of plays.

I never thought I say this myself, but give these guys a break and a chance to rectify the problems with the issues and wait for some real in game footage and we might not see that until E3... They are really trying to make "that" game this year, lets wait and see how it turns out then make our honest judgements. It's nothing wrong about saying "can you fix this or that" but lets not give up on the game yet, we still have a ton of info we don't know yet...

ben
voodoo

[Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by PRAY IV M3RCY

Is it just me r does it feel like we should have already had this stuff by now..I know its been said before but no competition sucks. But oh well as long as Madden chooses to be the Only NFL game available they deserve all the criticism About the gameplay they don't get right and the game modes they put off for years.

This attitude of entitlement is something EA, or any video game company, can't win against.

It doesn't matter whether the game "should already have" something. The fact is it either does or it doesn't.

Praise the game for what it adds and does right and critique it for its shortcomings, but to say "such-and-such features doesn't impress me because it should have already been there" is not an objective attitude to hold when evaluating the game and is counterproductive to the discussion of how good or bad Madden may be.

[dirtysouth1295]

looks good

[TalenT]

I don't know if this has been talked about yet, but I hated the ball physics on that hit @ 8:02. I know they have better ball physics this year, but that was hideous.

[big_larry]